“It’s surprising,” said Dr. Frederick Mikelberg, an ophthalmology professor at UBC and co-author of the study in the Journal of Glaucoma. Earlier research done by the UBC group and by a Taiwanese team examined large health databases and hinted at a link with erectile dysfunction. They found that glaucoma sufferers were 2.58 times more likely than the others to have scores on the questionnaire that indicated erectile dysfunction. Nor did the study find evidence that beta-blocker drops used to treat glaucoma were behind the high rates of ED in the glaucoma patients, as has been suggested in the past. Patients should be clear that glaucoma does not cause impotence, or the other way around, he noted.

Source: National Post August 30, 2016 00:45 UTC